Re: Cookies: New UK Legislation

Posted by GregChapman on
URL: https://support.nabble.com/Cookies-New-UK-Legislation-tp7500768p7557564.html

Hi Hugo,

Hugo <Nabble> wrote

Thanks for bringing this to our attention, Greg!

Based on the article you mentioned, sites that must comply with those regulations must be based within the EU.

I think you misunderstood/misread the clauses you quote.

It is NOT sites that must comply with those regulations but rather that "The law is linked to you/your business".

Whether it's for a personal or a business purpose, any web site maintained by an EU-based individual or business, regardless of where in the world it is hosted, needs to comply.

Having said that, after my original post, I read this interview with the guy in charge at the Information Commissioner's Office tasked with enforcing the Act of Parliament, I am slightly less worried about an imminent £500,000 fine than I was a fortnight ago.

However, it still seems to me that if Nabble intends to grow its EU market then it would be wise to ensure that there are tools built in to the Nabble product that would ensure compliance. We only need to wait until the ICO pick a high profile case to pursue - perhaps Google (Remember how the EU forced Microsoft to drop Internet Explorer from the Windows package in Europe a few years ago) - and companies such as yours could find a rapid exodus of business from users based in the EU.